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The Hollywood Musical » (2nd Edition)

Book cover image of The Hollywood Musical by Jane Feuer

Authors: Jane Feuer
ISBN-13: 9780253207685, ISBN-10: 0253207681
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: January 1993
Edition: 2nd Edition

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Author Biography: Jane Feuer

JANE FEUER is Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh. She has published articles on film and television in numerous journals. She is co-author of MTM: "Quality Television".

Book Synopsis

"... both fresh and informed, as well as a pleasure to read." — Film Quarterly

Since 1982, when this book first appeared, the Hollywood musical has undergone a rebirth, with the rise of teen musicals such as Dirty Dancing and Flashdance. In a chapter written especially for this second edition of her well-known study, Jane Feuer shows how this new development in the genre relates to important changes in the cinema audience itself. It is the text for the study of Hollywood musicals.

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1Mass Art as Folk Art1
2Spectators and Spectacles23
3The Celebration of Popular Song49
4Dream Worlds and Dream Stages67
5The History of the Hollywood Musical: Innovation as Conservation87
6A Postscript for the Nineties123
Filmography147

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